Sarah had already sat down   – Bette could see that she was calm and slightly amused by the changing of roles so that Tina was now in charge. Bette perched on the side of the same chair that Tina sat in – riding gunslinger for her lover rather appealed to her

“Okay- where are we at – mom ?”

“Your father is delusional – he seems to think that I am going to take him back after he humiliated me  by cheating on me with some child the same age as my daughter and then when that goes wrong he thinks I will meekly take him back “

“That seems a reasonable summary of your position – dad – why should she take you back ?”

“Because of how long we have been married – because we have a business — because we have three kids and because we love one another “

“I do love you and of course we have been married a long time and yes we have three kids who we can be proud of and yes there is the farm but that’s not enough. The trust isn’t there anymore- that’s something that you cannot replace. You left me without a single word of explanation and you expected me to get on with running the business. This is all your fault Niall – I would have thought that I couldn’t cope without you. I can and I do. The farm is really thriving and I don’t feel so tied to it like I did before. it’s a business and one that we have spent a long time working on but that is all it is.  You and I never left the farm for days on end – look at us now  – neither of us are at the farm. I have had a wonderful holiday in LA and its been fantastic to see my son and daughter and to be there when Bette displayed so romantically just how great a wife she will be to Tina. Things can not go back to the way that they were before “

“One mistake – that’s all it was “

“You got her pregnant Niall and you fell in love with her – that is more than one mistake. I hate seeing you like this – really I do but this is not fair on Bette and Tina  – we should not be having this row in front of them “